What is the purpose of my website?
- Help business leaders (current and emerging) succeed.
- Help business leaders have a positive impact on society.
Who is the target audience?
- Business leaders with urgent and critical issues that their consultants have not been able to address. Failure will have major personal consequences. AND OR major business consequences.
- Leaders with the ability to learn.
How does my website enable the above purposes?
Each article is designed to help leaders learn. How?
- Each article is comprised of a series of questions to enable thinking.
- There are facts, based on third party research, related to the questions.
- Articles conclude with next steps for the leader to continue their learning journey in their own company.
What is on my website?
- My website has over 100,000 words of facts, analysis, and thinking. Anyone can read, download and share. I am constantly learning, and unlearning, which means the documents continue to evolve.
- In today’s turbulent, unpredictable and fast changing world, most of my articles will be out-of-date. You must get current and relevant info.
My learnings are organized into 9 sections
#1 Avoiding business failure
#2 The startup journey
- Startup concepts, and what makes startups successful, apply to any company, at any stage in its life.
#3 Understanding customers
- What are the problems and needs customers are willing and able to pay for?
- How do customers perceive the value of addressing their problems and needs?
- How do customers perceive your competitively differentiated value proposition?
- How many of these customers are there?
#4 Investor interactions
#5 Corporate governance
#6 Only talent creates business value
- The right talent will figure out how to succeed in a rapidly changing and competitive world
- Do you have the right talent in the right places to succeed?
- Do you have the right processes and technology to attract, retain, develop and exit talent?
#7 Value creation planning (Strategy)
- Your company cannot exist without customers who perceive value. Other members of your company’s ecosystem also need to achieve value. Thus, the need for value creation plans.
- Value creation plans are explicitly focused on creating value. Strategy and strategic plans mean different things to different people.
#8 Business transformation
#9 Values, morals, and ethics
The following are links to sections of my website. .
Only talent creates business value